Category: Composition Teaching Tools

• Writer’s Block for Composers — A Possible Way to Handle It

  Buckle up people, this is a tough one.  Disclaimer: I am not trained in any form of psychoanalysis, coaching, guiding or mentoring. This is my process, what I have learned by working with such professionals over the years. I am sharing my own process and experience. This has worked for me. The following passage was…

  raniachrysostomou

  31/10/2022

  Composition Teaching Tools, Music Life

• How Parkour helped me overcome my Creative Block 

  

  What does writing music and feeling (notice how I said “feeling” and not “having”) blocked creatively have to do with parkour??? Well…!

  raniachrysostomou

  27/10/2022

  Composition Teaching Tools, Music Life, Review

  #composition, #creative block, #writer's block #creativeblock, anxiety, choir, composer's block, feeling anziety, feeling lost, horn, jumping, music problems, oblique studies, overwhelming, parkour, strategies, trumpet, writer's block

• Variations and Recombinations – Part 4

  

  Improvisation, composition and performance are all part of this post’s music activities for preschoolers Variations and recombinations part 4! #MusicMatters #EYFSMusic

  raniachrysostomou

  25/01/2021

  Composition Teaching Tools, Music Education, Music for Early Years

  #EYFSMusic, ABC song lesson plan, Ba ba black sheep lesson plan, babies music class, kindergarten music, Music Education, music education in nursery schools, music for babies, music for toddlers, music lesson plan, nursery music, patterns and music for babies, patterns in music, pied piper, preschool, preschooler, recombining, theme, toddlers, toddlers music, twinkle twinkle little star lesson plan, variation

• Variations and Recombinations – Part 3

  

  This is the 2nd of a series of 4 posts, each looking into playing with themes and variations and recombinations with different age groups. This one is for toddlers 16-26 months #MusicEducationMatters #EYFSMusic

  raniachrysostomou

  18/01/2021

  Composition Teaching Tools, Music Education, Music for Early Years

  #EYFSMusic, ABC song lesson plan, Ba ba black sheep lesson plan, babies music class, kindergarten music, Music Education, music education in nursery schools, music for babies, music for toddlers, music lesson plan, nursery music, patterns and music for babies, patterns in music, pied piper, preschool, preschooler, recombining, theme, toddlers, toddlers music, twinkle twinkle little star lesson plan, variation

• Variations and Recombinations – Part 2

  

  This is the 2nd of a series of 4 posts, each looking into playing with themes and variations and recombinations with different age groups. This one is for toddlers 16-26 months #MusicEducationMatters #EYFSMusic

  raniachrysostomou

  11/01/2021

  Composition Teaching Tools, Music Education, Music for Early Years

  #EYFSMusic, ABC song lesson plan, Ba ba black sheep lesson plan, babies music class, kindergarten music, Music Education, music education in nursery schools, music for babies, music for toddlers, music lesson plan, nursery music, patterns and music for babies, patterns in music, pied piper, preschool, preschooler, recombining, theme, toddlers, toddlers music, twinkle twinkle little star lesson plan, variation

• Variations and Recombinations – Part 1

  

  Ways to play with themes and variations for different age groups, from babies to preschoolers

  raniachrysostomou

  04/01/2021

  Composition Teaching Tools, Music Education, Music for Early Years

  #EYFSMusic, ABC song lesson plan, Ba ba black sheep lesson plan, babies music class, kindergarten music, Music Education, music education in nursery schools, music for babies, music for toddlers, music lesson plan, nursery music, patterns and music for babies, patterns in music, pied piper, preschool, preschooler, recombining, theme, toddlers, toddlers music, twinkle twinkle little star lesson plan, variation

• Vehicles / Woodland Sounds

  

  Outdoors or indoors music session about sounds in the city or the woodlands 8-20 month olds

  raniachrysostomou

  07/12/2020

  Music Education, Music for Early Years

  #8-20 months olds, #baby music, #choo choo, #down at the station, #leaves, #lesson, #music, #newmusic #musicEd #compositiongames, #nursery music, #plan, #plan about woodlands, #rain, #songs about vehicles, #tap, #vehicles, #vroom, #walking in the forest

• Pied Piper

  

  A form of “Pied the Piper” session, where through musical activities the children will follow your lead. It is a theatrical session…

  raniachrysostomou

  28/10/2020

  Composition Teaching Tools, Music Education, Music for Early Years

  30-50 month olds, covid safe lesson plan, covid19 music, EYFS music, following the leader, imagination in children, kindergarten music, music, music activities, music distractions, Music Education, music for babies, music for toddlers, music in nursery schools, musiced, sing, theatrical music session, theatrical session

• Timbre and Pulse

  

  Lesson plan to be held in a nursery school setting aimed for babies between 8 – 20 months. This focuses around timbre and pulse. Modification tips during Covid-19 time

  raniachrysostomou

  19/10/2020

  Composition Teaching Tools, Music Education, Music for Early Years, The elements of music

  babies music, covid19 music, EYFS music, fanny mendelssohn, harp, harp music, melody, music, Music Education, nnursery music, nursery school music, percussion music, pulse, rhythm, timbre, tips and tricks

• Lesson Plan | Nature / Animals

  

  When in doubt,” a mentor of mine once told me, “talk about animals, sing about animals, just use animals, or food, or nature. I don’t know why but children love them!” So, here is a lesson plan that can be focused around ainmals or nature

  raniachrysostomou

  16/09/2020

  Composition Teaching Tools, Music Education, Music for Early Years

  music, Music Education, music for babies, music for toddlers, music tools, musiced, new music, nursery music